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Friday, December 8, 2006 |  |
CG... or not CG?
There are lots of questions people still have about the Halo 3 commercial... but here's an answer, hard and solid, directly from Frank O'Connor at Bungie. With respect to the children shown at the start of the film:
"Those kids are real actors. Not CG or MoCap. Even the grass is real in that shot."
More of your questions will be answered soon - Bungie's got an interview with Digital Domain that will go live before you're as grey as I am. (Louis Wu 19:51:38 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Grunts - Animation
This morning, we got word from Shaun Escayg, who was involved in an animation project over at CGSociety.org. The short video he pointed us to (5 seconds, about 6 mb) was fantastic - but I didn't want them to suffer from a bandwidth hit if we front-paged this, so we're making the video available here (with Shaun's permission, of course). Feel free to toss your two cents into that thread at CGS... but grab the video from us. (It's available in its original H.264-encoded QuickTime (5.5 mb), as well as a Sorenson3-encoded QuickTime (3.9 mb) and a WMP9 version (5.7 mb).) It's not long, and it has no sound - but the grunts are GORGEOUS. Model was done by Ben Falcone, animation by Shaun Escayg, and rigging by Mikkel Grosland (with Anna Terekhova supplying the Needler model). Amazing work. Grab a copy! (Louis Wu 19:31:37 UTC) (permalink)
Blue Movie.
When studio funding for the Halo movie pulled out a couple of months ago, some people speculated that Microsoft wouldn't have any trouble funding the development themselves. In an interview recently, Robbie Bach said that this would not happen - Microsoft was not getting into the movie-making business. Today's One One Se7en suggests a reason why. (Louis Wu 19:25:02 UTC) (permalink)
Valkyrie
Camboy45, a member of the Red vs Blue community, sent along a shot of his new Halo tattoo. Nice work! (Louis Wu 18:48:58 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's Fanfic
Fifteen new pieces for you in today's Fan Fiction update - well, not quite, because someone thought that because they'd mislabeled a series name, they should RESUBMIT the series, in its entirety... but you get the idea. (In the future, please don't do this.) (Louis Wu 18:04:25 UTC) (permalink)
GameVideos deconstructs Halo 3 ad - in video
Mark MacDonald and Luke Smith (of GameVideos.com/1Up.com/Electronic Games Magazine) have their own deconstruction of the Halo 3 commercial; what's different about theirs (aside from the fact that these guys get paid for this sort of thing) is that it's in video format. They walk through the commercial, conversing about all the juicy tidbits as they go. This is available at GameVideos.com - it's 13 minutes long, and you can either watch it in streaming format on their site, or download hi-res versions (more than 200 MB) to your computer to watch at your leisure. (Louis Wu 07:59:31 UTC) (permalink)
PG - the Maginot Line of Guards
Normally, The Halo Humpday Challenge is a series of three games between Bungie and a community team. Normally, Bungie gets their collective rears handed to them in a majority of those games. This week was no exception, really; Bungie had a team of two (because everyone else was either too busy or too stupid), and PraetoriaGuard simply cycled in 3 pairs of the six people they brought to the party. Two of the games were predictable; Bungie's team of Frankie and Lars went down HARD. The third... the third was so unusual that this week's Halo Humpday Challenge focuses ONLY on that game. In this game, Frankie (FRANKIE fergoshsakes) pummeled clan leader LordGideon and faithful sidekick SteelValor so mercilessly, so thoroughly that his score was more than double their best score, and his deaths were half of their least-killed player. His medal count equalled their TEAM'S medal count, and the number of headshots he scored was greater than the sum of all players on the PG team. To put it simply... he kicked ass and took names... and then wrote those names on a chalkboard and fed the chalkboard to a bear. And then he sicced that bear on Steven Colbert. (Wait, I might have gotten that part wrong.) LordGideon, we hear, has not come out of his room yet. (The game was played almost 36 hours ago.) (Louis Wu 07:19:02 UTC) (permalink)
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